Combined curtain-pole and shade-roller supporting bracket.



No. 688,954. Patented Dec. l7, 1901. E. A. .muusou are. m. nosams.

' COMBINED CURTAIN POLE AND SHADE ROLLER SUPPORTING BRACKET.

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UNITE STATES nTnniT Orrrch.

EDWARD A. JOHNSON AND GOODWIN M. ROBERTS, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

COMBINED CURTAIN-POLE AND SHADE-ROLLER SUPPORTING BRACKET.

SJPEGIEIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 688,954, datedDecember 17, 1901.

Application filed January 21, 1901. Serial No. 44,046. (No model.)

To all w/wm it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD A. JOHNSON and GOODWIN M. ROBERTS, citizensof the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklinand State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement ina Combined Curtain-Pole and Shade- Roller Supporting Bracket, of whichthe following is a specification.

Our invention relates to the improvement of curtain-pole andwindow-shade supports;

' and the objects of our invention are to provide animproved'construction of curtain-pole and window shade supportingbrackets, whereby the sameare automatically adjusted for shade-rollersof different lengths and to produce certain improvements in details ofconstruction and arrangement of parts, which will be more fully pointedout hereinafter. These objects we accomplish in the manner illustratedin the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a face view of thetop board or top frame-piece of a window-frame having our improvementsthereon and showing a curtain-pole supported thereby, the windowshaderoller being omitted for the sake of clearness in illustration. Fig. 2is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an inner side elevation ofone of the bracket-bodies, and Fig. 4 is a partial side elevation of theoppos ing brackets to that shown in Fig. 2.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In carrying out our invention we employ on opposite sides of thewindow-frame and secured near opposite end portions of the topframe-board of the window-frame bracketsupporting bodies 1. Each ofthese bracketsupports is in the nature of a horizontally-arrangedsernitubular or channeled body the inner end of which is provided withan enlargement or attaching-flange 2, the latter having screw-holes topermit of its being socured firmly to said window-frame top piece or toa separate bar or board extending over said window-frame top piece. Eachof the brackets, which are indicated, respectively, at 3 and 4, consistsof a fanciful form of arm, which extends outward and thence upward, saidupwardly-extending portion being provided with a yoke or substantiallyUshaped termination 5. The innerend of each of the brackets is, asindicated more clearly in Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawings, formed with atrans Verse D-shaped opening 6, through which is adapted to pass looselyone of the channeled bodies 1. The inner side of each of these D-shapedterminations is provided with a projecting pin 7. The portion 6 of thebrackets having been respectively slipped onto the supporting-bodies 1,said brackets are adjustably connected with the inner end portions ofsaid supporting-bodies through the medium of coiled springs 8, the innerends of which are connected with pins 9, projecting fromthe inner endportions of the bodies 1, and the outer ends of which are connected withthe pins 7 of the brackets. The springs 8 serve to normally draw thebrackets 3 and 4 inward until their portions 6 contact with theenlargements 2. In the bracket 3 we provide, in the lower arm thereof,an angular recess 3, and in the corresponding arm of the bracket 4 weprovide, as indicated in Fig. 4, a round opening 4:, these openingsbeing adapted to receive, respectively, the squared and rounded ends ofthe end spindles of an ordinary spring actuated curtain roller. Withinthe forks 5 or yoke-like upward extensions of the brackets 3 and 4 isadapted to be supported, as indicated, a curtain-pole 10.

It is obvious that in supporting a shaderoller in the brackets 3 and 4which is of greater length than the distance which normally existsbetween said brackets said brackets may be moved outward to correspondwith the length of the roller and that the brackets will be maintainedin the same relative positions through the tension of the springs S. Inthis manner it will be seen that curtain-rollers of different lengthsmay be readily supported between the brackets, the latter adjustingthemselves to the length of roller used, thus obviating the necessity ofrigidly securing the brackets at such distances from each other as thelength of the roller might require.

Having now fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

In combined curtain-pole and shade-roller supporting brackets,thecombination with the horizontally-arranged opposing channeled bodies 1adapted to be secured to a windowframe,of brackets 3 and 4, the innerends of which are D-shaped and adapted to slide on saidsupporting-bodies, pins projecting from and within said D-shapedterminations, and springs connecting said bracket-pins'with the innerends of said supporting-bodies, one of said brackets having formedtherein an angular recess and the opposing bracket having formed thereina round opening and the upper :0 portion of each of said brackets havinga substantially yoke-shaped termination, substantially as specified.

EDWARD A. JOHNSON. GOODWIN M. ROBERTS. In presence of C. O. SHEPHERD, A.L. PHELPS.

